The number of infected people are much more higher than what the useless government declared .
Over 10,000 people are already infected in Lagos alone .. All thanks to Buhari refusal to close the borders on time .
The FG and the hard working men and women of NCDC, Lagos state and brave first responders fighting to keep the virus away from you are the reasons why you and your family are not infected, not sick or dead.
Thank God, the 10,000 infected people exists only in your evil dream and imagination.
nineone: There must be some reasons the virus is not spreading in Nigeria. The government shouldn't take any credit because they've done absolutely nothing. They are not testing and the ones that testing positive are complaining of lack of medical attention. The only right thing they did was lockdown orders but they also did that at the expense of the masses because no palliative measures were put in place
May God not take away the credit that you deserve. Amen
GamalNasser: It's time we address claims by Buharist clowns that because Nigeria has recorded just 2 death and 155 infections because of Buharis good leadership , this is huge lie and we will put an end to it today !!.
My first question I ask is can zombies tell us what the Buhari govt has done well so the Americans can emulate him and learn , the truth is Buhari has done nothing infact pound for pound his performance in this Covid crisis is one of the worst pro rata.
Why does Nigeria actually have lower numbers :
1 : Traveller inflow : in the first two months of 2020 America had already received over 58 million international travellers while Nigeria recieved about 485 thousand passengers , from this statistics you can see America has received over 100 times more people than Nigeria so is more likely to have imported more infected people but when we take the percentage of infect ion per mille we fine out that America has 0.02% per mille while Nigeria has 0.03% per mille which means Nigeria imported more infections per thousand at 155 confirmed cases today and if I go further and use the wild estimations that some 5000 infections might be runnings wild it the brings Nigeria imported infection per mille to over 1% which is a lot
2: Number of test carried out ; another reason why Nigeria seems to be spotting far lower numbers is due to the low number of testing don't compared to America.. America has tested over 135 thousand people while Nigeria as at today has just test slightly over 200 meaning while America is testing over 300 people per a million of it's population Nigeria is test just 2 people per million so Nigeria is likely to see fewer cases .
3 : Low Transmission and lethality ; Another reason why the rates are low in Nigeria is that for some reason the virus has a slower or weaker rate of transmission and lethality in Nigeria and this might be due to a lot of factors like weather , humidity , genetic make up , diet and most probable to me the absence of any active 5g signal above 24Ghz ( this is for smarter folks so average folks can stand down please )
4 Lack of adequate data base requisite for contact tracing : many contacts have not been traced due to poor address systems and inadequate data base of contact thereby making the issue of contact tracing more difficult and making the numbers of confirmed cases lower .
5 : Self Medication : Nigeria is well known for self medication and data seems to suggest that many patients with similar symptoms as COVID has chosen to knock it off as common flu and self medicated their way out of it with the support of their youthful immunity ( twitter is filled with such stories )
6: Youthful population : Nigeria due it's high ratio of youthful population with Youthful immunity might be acting as a stumbling block to the person to person transmission rate in the country as most youth have the capacity ward off COVID infections without even throwing symptoms .
Gentlemen with these few points I hope you can see that there is nothing special the government of Buhari is doing to stem this crisis instead the the Buhari govt has contributed more to escalating it to where it is today in Nigeria with their reckless behaviour of late travel restrictions till their kids got back home and Federal govt aide even going as far as importing infections and spreading it within govt circle ...I must not fail to commend the stellar leadership in this crisis of the Lagos State govt because they set parameters and template for tackling this which other state Govts have quickly mirrored and which has greatly help but as for the Buhari govt I don't see a single special standout thing they did infact they where late to to the table and only came after Lagos had taken the initiative to bear the index case at it's own risk and initiative
Your data didn't add up with fact. Pls crosscheck and repost.
1. The crisis came to Nigeria later than the countries you mention in the west. Therefore, those countries having provided an example cannot be compared with Nigeria whom should have learned by the aforementioned example?
3. That like for like comparisons are not possible because one, those countries have a far higher inflow of traffic from affected spots; and second, because Nigerias testing capacity is far, far lower than that of other countries...so we may be thinking the crisis is lower here than it actually is. US made this error as well.
4. That there is an obvious cycle where the initial wave of cases seems manageable and then balloons.
Having said all this, I conclude by arguing, without making any comparison that Buhari mismanaged this situation by:
1. Leaving the borders open until a critical mass had become infected
2. Failing to beef up the NCDC capacity despite having showed initial foresight.
3. Failing to address the nation in a timely manner, leading to states having to take the lead
4. Failing to provide critical food supplies for the poor in areas under federal lock down.
Now all of this is underscored by this simple fact: Nigeria does not have the resources other nations have to effectively tackled this crisis. Therefore we ought to have taken extra care. All Mr. President had to do was to close the borders early enough.
1. Iran had her first case only four days earlier than us. Check their stats. Check any other country that has their first case in the last week of Feb and compare.
2. Same as my first response here. Nigeria does not have low inflow of people from the western world and China. More than enough sef.
3. Spike is usually with first 3 to 4 weeks of its outbreak. We have passed five weeks since the first case.
Closing your airspace is not a decision as simple as what yoi like to eat. It takes a lot of careful analysis and conviction that it's the right thing to do. Tell me which country did just that? If it was that simple and easy, many would have.
Lastly, the govt has given money to LASG and provided resources to NCDC. Like I said earlier, we can only expect the govt to act within its resources.
Dont worry about that, he would write another epistle and put the blame on China. We are still at the incubation stage and the BMO's are already patting themselves on the back.
Most people are refusing to even comment on the thread because the foolishness and reason behind it is just stomach churning!
He pain am. Nigeria will win this war by his grace
You are the sick one: you asked for the mess and it's served you on a platter, enjoy it while more comes.
However, pick up your phone and google "countries that quarantine returning citizens". Don't forget to share the list of such countries. Let me give you an "expo" - China, find the others.
And how did the quarantine of citizens help slow or stop the virus from devastating those countries? Then how will the government quarantine all citizens (what about non citizens?), coming into the country when there was no quarantine facilities in place. Will the government use a magic wand, and abracadabra, huge quarantine facilities with equipments and test kits will appear?
it shall not be well with you and Seun if you do not delete this account, do you pay me? look at these fools? ban this account and you will never see me on here ever again, I don't go back to my vomit.
brainless mofosss who can not differentiate between opinion and insult
Oga Seun, what are you waiting for, please shift delete papapa
So which country do you think took the kinds of measures you advocate to stem the inflow of the virus into their country? Which country do you suggest we emulate?
Nigeria cannot just shut his borders too early to all incoming traffic. Stopping flight from China did not work as Trump found out. The virus could come from any country, even before it reaches epidemic levels in that country. If Buhari stopped all flights to Nigeria the very week the outbreak started in Wuhan, the regular wailers would have wailed endlessly on how Nigeria did not close the borders during SARS in 2003.
Beef NCDC capacity? How? This is a virus we knew very little about and the world had very little ideas of its properties.
Lol! So in your own mind we must always be emulators of some other country elsewhere??
Of course shutting the borders did not work for the US BECAUSE IT WAS ALREAFY TOO LATE! I don't know why I have to point that out to you.
SMH. You want a country to emulate, take: Taiwan. They issued travel alerts and bans within the first five weeks of the crisis and today, despite being surrounded by affected countries, life goes on as normal.
PassingShot: I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.
If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:
1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.
2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.
3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.
The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!
Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.
Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?
Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!
1. The crisis came to Nigeria later than the countries you mention in the west. Therefore, those countries having provided an example cannot be compared with Nigeria whom should have learned by the aforementioned example?
3. That like for like comparisons are not possible because one, those countries have a far higher inflow of traffic from affected spots; and second, because Nigerias testing capacity is far, far lower than that of other countries...so we may be thinking the crisis is lower here than it actually is. US made this error as well.
4. That there is an obvious cycle where the initial wave of cases seems manageable and then balloons.
Having said all this, I conclude by arguing, without making any comparison that Buhari mismanaged this situation by:
1. Leaving the borders open until a critical mass had become infected
2. Failing to beef up the NCDC capacity despite having showed initial foresight.
3. Failing to address the nation in a timely manner, leading to states having to take the lead
4. Failing to provide critical food supplies for the poor in areas under federal lock down.
Now all of this is underscored by this simple fact: Nigeria does not have the resources other nations have to effectively tackled this crisis. Therefore we ought to have taken extra care. All Mr. President had to do was to close the borders early enough.
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Typical wailer rubbish. No sense of facts, no knowledge, just hateful rubbish.
First of all, why did they wait for Buhari's daughter to arrive from UK before closing borders?
Two, why was it that Abba Kyari wasn't put in Isolation as he arrived from his?
Learn to be objective in your criticism. Na only Buhari daughter return from UK? What about Atiku’s son and Davido and his baby mama? Why were they not put into quarantine? Why was Seyi Makinde so stupid as to call Corona an APC disease? Is he also a dullard? Stop being blinded by partisan politics and tribal hatred and realize that there are only two parties: the ruling class and the common man. They are all members of the same club and stick together when push comes to shove.
Adakintroy2: Jonathan would have ushered in a new Era of educated mind and behaviour. but primitive tribal lifeforms would not have it. They are real virus destroying our population.
Do you know if it was.Jonathan that issue a total locks own on lagos the yorubas would have rovolt. Now that it's their master, no noise was made.master is always right
So great. At least you were not blind during his tenure. You saw how it played out where the so-called educated mind we're looting up and down. GEJs removal was a collective effort that is we all agreed on all the massive looting going on.
PassingShot: I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.
If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:
1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.
2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.
3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.
The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!
Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.
Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?
Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!
Have a nice day.
In as much as you love the president, whenever he didn't do so well, please be confident and courageous enough to say it.
Now to counter your claims.
1. How many of those imported cases did you hear was isolated at the airport(point of entry), due to the effective temperature check? Do you know why there was none? Our Lagos airport officials treat some people as VIP.
2. Anyone arriving from high risk countries are suppose to self isolate. Did the chief of staff did that? So it suggest a failed follow up system.
3. If airport was closed since on March 1st, we wouldn't have had 95% of our imported cases and economic activities would still have been normal in Nigeria.
PassingShot: I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.
If any unbiased person wants to make
any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:
1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.
2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.
3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.
The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!
Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.
Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?
Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!
Have a nice day.
Second to last paragraph spoiled the whole write up,must you bring in politics in all you writes?You don't know anything about central Europe,they have porous borders,unlike here in Nigeria we have very limited borders that can easily be curtail.Every reasonable person in this country knows the the FG is not ready to battle this pandemic,what are the proactive measures they took so sar,practical None.What are palliative measures they took so far,none.God forbid the pandemic hit Nigeria like U.K. or other countries you mentioned above,Nigeria will be worse like war zone.Lets call a spade a spade.
No, l cant read. I do not need to discredit the article because "if you argue with a fool, people wont know the difference and he or she will steal overun you with experience". The only reason you are here jumping up and down to defend the rubbish he wrote is just because the President is Buhari, a fellow Northerner and Muslim. Aside that, l know you have nothing else upstairs, but weldone all the same, Cowdung.
He pain am. What do you have to say. We are mature sensible people, be objective and let's have your facts too.
Adakintroy2: I remember when Jonathan removed oil subsidy. The Yoruba protested and occupy Nigeria so fast. They even interpret it as fuel hike. I just put my hand for jaw.DE look yoruba man. na so una be? Even the obviouse?
Do you know if it was.Jonathan that issue a total locks own on lagos the yorubas would have rovolt. Now that it's their master, no noise was made.
Ode! The same quarantine act your esteemed government relied on to infringe on the rights of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun people allows FG to close the border to even its citizens.
OK. Please tell me: what is happening at the borders now?
Ode ni Baba n la Baba e. Omo ale jati jati. Dumb ass idiotic fool. All countries including Nigeria will still allow their citizens entry into the country as long as they can find their way back to the border. I as an American can still enter the US today as long as I can make it back to the country. China as banned all foreigners but its citizens are still allowed to enter. Monkey, better start getting your news from reputable news outlets instead of untrained Nigerian bloggers. What does that say about any country that refuses to let it's citizens back into the country, do you expect other countries to take them? Low IQ foolish monkey. Better go and get some home training from your father and then come back to post sensible comments. Olodo, atole dindinri amukun meko, ole.
The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them.
The new goal post. The OP was right about you wailers,
payperpost: Seun, so you were paid to move this to front page to insult us right?
this is what Linda ikeji or yabaleft will not do, well enjoy it while it last.
what has buhari done? his chief of staff imported the virus to Nigeria and you are here telling us nonsense, even the Italian reported himself and now doing fine. Covid 1 . 9
You have just exposed yourself... So you actually pay to put trash in front page
Dont worry about that, he would write another epistle and put the blame on China. We are still at the incubation stage and the BMO's are already patting themselves on the back.
Most people are refusing to even comment on the thread because the foolishness and reason behind it is just stomach churning!
As in ehn...
The country is still at the early stages of this clusterfūck and they are already praising themselves for a job well done.
In as much as you love the president, whenever he didn't do so well, please be confident and courageous enough to say it.
Now to counter your claims.
1. How many of those imported cases did you hear was isolated at the airport(point of entry), due to the effective temperature check? Do you know why there was none? Our Lagos airport officials treat some people as VIP.
2. Anyone arriving from high risk countries are suppose to self isolate. Did the chief of staff did that? So it suggest a failed follow up system.
3. If airport was closed since on March 1st, we wouldn't have had 95% of our imported cases and economic activities would still have been normal in Nigeria.
Do you know the procedure for shutting the borders. Almost all countries delayed in shutting its borders. Do you agree? Nigeria shut its borders earlier than many developed countries. Technically and relatively, we did well in this regard
Did you just ask if Federal Government(FG) handled this Covid 19 matter appropriately?
The answer from me is "No, FG didn't handle it appropriately".
As much as I don't want to dwell on the past, I must say that the first major miss was the inability of the FG, upon discovery of the index case (Italian man) in Nigeria, to stop all international flights in and out of Nigeria and simultaneously restrict border movements and enabling effective testing at border gates for people who must exit and enter Nigeria.
That is the reason we are in this mess so it is annoying and insensitive to have you put up this topic and try to justify FG actions with the body of your topic. I am more alarmed because you seem to be one of the e-rats on the employment of APC. How much do you guys get paid these days?
Closing a state's border isn't even an easy decision to take. How much more a national border. Even if the border was shit after the first case, would it have stopped at that one case? And would citizens have been prevented from coming to their country even if airspace was closed?
